Taboos Against Incest

[FindersKeepers]

Incest is weird as $#@! but frankly, I don't care what people do with their lives

I don't either for the most part, but perhaps siblings should be educated as to the risk of having sickly or deformed offspring.

[DGUtley]

Lets scoot forward to today, incest is disgusting and unnecessary in modern society. Its proven it create deformed children to various degrees and that includes same blood cousins comingling. Theres also emotional deformation. Incest is alot more common today than people realize, ask any big city cop

My sister was a teacher in southern Ohio and is now an administrator. She tells me that it is much more common than we believe.

[Adelaide]

My mother's ancestors appear to have gone through a couple of stages of marrying cousins prior to the 18th century. It appears to have occurred in order to keep it "all in the family" for some Scottish Clans or to contain power within one Irish/Welsh family. Based on what I have come across, it only happened with ancestors that would be considered nobility or royalty, and not with commoners. I am descended in like a dozen different lines from Robert the Bruce, for example.

It makes sense, considering that anyone with a claim to a title is dangerous. Limiting it by keeping marriages within a family seems like a fairly logical solution, except we are well aware why it does not work biologically/genetically.

[Toober]

it seems some animals have a natural avoidance of incest built in,,which makes sense as to limit the likelihood of genetic aberrations...

Do wild animals avoid incest? | Questions | Naked Scientists

https://www.thenakedscientists.com › articles › do-wild-animals-avoid-incest


Feb 13, 2011 - And male hyenas will only move to new groups of females to breed. So they've got a sort of social setup which helps to avoid incest.

[Chris]

often with disastrous results...

incest is also prevalent in arab nations with the same results...

RIght, they didn't fall under the influence of the medieval Catholic Church.

[Common]

Incest (or the effects of) might explain why so many in Royal families over history seemed so odd.

Good point

[Mister D]

Speaking of obsessions, this gets very, very old.

He argued that while some people, including white nationalists, tend to interpret any scientific study about concrete differences between cultures as evidence of Western superiority, this study should instead point to the randomness of differences between peoples. “There’s really nothing special, to start with, about Europe, except that the church creates this obsession,” Schulz said. “This could have happened with other places around the world. It’s just more or less coincidence this happened in Europe.”

Is it possible to discuss human biocultural diversity without politics and the left's $#@! obsession with equality? We're different. It is what it is.

Anyway, while true of cousin marriage this does not appear to be true of monogamy. The RCC likely solidified existing custom.

[Toober]

Speaking of obsessions, this gets very, very old.



Is it possible to discuss human biocultural diversity without politics and the left's $#@! obsession with equality? We're different. It is what it is.

Anyway, while true of cousin marriage this does not appear to be true of monogamy. The RCC likely solidified existing custom.

i agree,,,,that statement alone taints his entire article...

[Rationalist]

Speaking of obsessions, this gets very, very old.



Is it possible to discuss human biocultural diversity without politics and the left's $#@! obsession with equality? We're different. It is what it is.

Anyway, while true of cousin marriage this does not appear to be true of monogamy. The RCC likely solidified existing custom.

Basically. While individuals can indeed vary significantly, aggregate differences between cultures can still be identified. This used to be the basis for things like sociology and anthropology, but apparently, only certain differences are allowed to be mentioned now.

It's similar to how biological differences are clearly present between men and women, but we're only allowed to mention certain ones of those.

[Mister D]

Basically. While individuals can indeed vary significantly, aggregate differences between cultures can still be identified. This used to be the basis for things like sociology and anthropology, but apparently, only certain differences are allowed to be mentioned now.

It's similar to how biological differences are clearly present between men and women, but we're only allowed to mention certain ones of those.

And they call us science deniers.

I was recently cast as a Neanderthal for believing there exists sexual dimorphism in human brains.